The Hero(ine)’s Journey: Coincidences Much?

There comes a point of time in everyone’s life – everything comes to a point of crisis, and all your long-held beliefs shatter, all the foundations and structures break down, and everything you know about your life ceases to exist. It is at precisely this point in your life, that you realize that all you [...]

Am I A Geek Now?

And no, this hasn’t gotten anything to do with the fact that the app is named ‘GeekTool’! LOL Brace yourself, this is a long story! But it’s got some nice pics and links, promise! The story begins with me discovering, or should I say, re-discovering GTD by David Allen. I was first introduced to this [...]

New Newsletter and Some News

Hello and welcome to this edition of my newsletter. I expect, most of you must be wondering why it has been quite a while that my newsletter went out. Let me explain… Prior to this edition, my newsletter went out via the Nourish site. But, of late, this site was down – as there were [...]

Windoze!

We all know about how Windows works (and crashes)- and how much I really love (and want the Mac)… Here is an amazing video which really shows us how Windows absolutely takes the cake…Imagine for a while (if you can!!) that the Matrix ran on Windows… So what do you think would happen???!!! Watch this [...]

Published!

Well! It’s finally happened! Something every writer / poet dreams of happening! One of my poems was noticed (on the Internet, I will add!) and then they got in touch with me. My poem will soon be published in a teacher’s guide which is part of a program in American Schools called ‘Plugged Into Reading’. [...]

Exploring Windows Live Writer

Just downloaded and am trying out this really fascinating thingamajig called Windows Live Writer! A godsend for me – a person who blogs almost everywhere at all times using Word and has no idea how the final product will look like…and then after I upload it, I do some 3 rounds of edits…. And the [...]

How to make your Windows XP look like a Mac

So, am I turning into a techie? Ye Gads! No! But I would like to add my 2 cents to all those people out there who are looking (just like I was) for a better way to convert the looks of Windows XP (SP3) so that it looks like a Mac. The best way is [...]

Windoze Format – Paradise Lost!

So I love to install programs and then uninstall them and do a lot of masti with my laptop! The end result – some many GBs of space gets cluttered with some shit data (which I can never locate and delete manually) which ends up clogging my disk space… let it also be known that [...]

My Website Re-vamped!

As an annual custom, my website, www.madhavighare.com has been subjected to a re-vamping session – the look and feel, and of course, the content has been changed. As such, I did not have very many complaints with the previous look of the website – because it was a CSS Table-less format. But that time when [...]

Mars Retrograde Turns Direct!

Well, Mars, the planet of all kinds of aggressive movement had been retrograde for quite some time now. And it turned direct on the 30th of January. Ever since then, my life has turned into one hectic place. From that day till today, the past 8 days or so have been quite a mish mash [...]